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| Keywords: 1866 Johnson's Map of Missouri and Kansas - Geographicus - MIKA-j-64.jpg This is Johnson and Ward ™s 1866 map of Missouri and Kansas Covers the state divided into counties with special attention to transportation especially roads railroads and canals Features three inset woodcuts Fire on the Prairie Santa Fe From the Great Missouri Trail and American Indians Spearing Fish at night from river canoes Depicts the two states in an early configuration with western Kansas largely unexplored Includes important roads such as the Santa Fe Road and the proposed route of the Union Pacific Railroad Also noted are numerous American Indian tribes forts passes topographical details proposed railroads mines etc Features the fretwork style border common to Johnson ™s atlas work from 1863 to 1869 Steel plate engraving prepared by A J Johnson for publication as plates no 58 and 59 in the 1866 edition of his New Illustrated Atlas ¦ This is the last edition of the Johnson ™s Atlas to bear the Johnson and Ward imprint 1866 dated 1864 Size in 23 17 object history credit line accession number MIKA-j-64 Johnson A J <i>Johnson's New Illustrated Family Atlas</i> 1864 Johnson and Ward edition Geographicus-source PD-old-100 Maps by Alvin Jewett Johnson 1866 maps Old maps of Kansas Old maps of Missouri | ||||
